changed. With the expansion of their roles in society‚ came more literary references to women. Either as authors themselves‚ such as Margaret Fuller‚ or women who became famous for their political struggles for women’s rights‚ including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ their courageous battles have been recorded. Just as women’s rights have evolved through the history of America‚ they also have developed as a theme in literature. Importance of “Women’s Rights” Theme in American
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were “owned” by their fathers and husbands. As time passed and the country developed‚ women gradually gained rights otherwise not permitted to them before. But the battle to get this far was not easy. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to toil to and fight in what they believed in and in the end their effort did not go in vain. From the 1840s-1920s women fought for equality‚ from the 1930s- present women’s rights became reinforced‚ black women fought for equality‚ the pay
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In the article “Susan B. Anthony dares to vote” and the play “The Watsons go to birmingham” the theme of both texts is perseverance. They show it in many different ways though like in the article she goes against the law to get her rights for being a woman and in the play Watson’s try to fight for blacks rights when they go to back to Alabama. A difference they have is the characters actions in “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote” white people want to send her to jail‚ but in “The Watson’s go to Birmingham”
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concerns the colonists had written about with the greivences women’s had towards the limited rights afforded to them. Stanton went on to become a founding member of a major women’s rights party‚ the National Woman’s Suffrage Association‚ along with Susan B. Anthony. The group was formed as the result of a split in the American Equal Rights Association. The radical group sought to achieve women’s rights through constitutional amendments‚ not limited to the right to vote‚ but also looking to make divorce
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New York. Fowler and Wells 1889. DuBois‚ Ellen Carol‚ ed. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence‚ Writings‚ Speeches‚ Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press 1992. Stanton‚ Elizabeth Cady. Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Delivered at Seneca Falls& Rochester‚ N.Y. July 19th & August 2nd 1848. New York: Robert J. Johnston‚ 1870. Stanton‚ Elizabeth Cady‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ and Matilda Joslyn Gage‚ eds. History of Woman Suffrage. 3 vols. New York: Fowler
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how this was not the case back then. A great women’s activist and the former of the women’s suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony worked hard to obtain women’s right to vote. She was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was raised in Quaker family that believed women’s were equal to men; and should be able to have the same rights even to education. In addition Susan B. Anthony had the opportunity to have an education do to because her father believe all his children should have an education
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Malia Byram Mr. Mumau APUSH 5 December 2012 Village Life In America 1852-1872 As told in the diary of a Schoolgirl This book is a diary written by a young girl named Caroline Cowles Richards. Carolina tells the reader about her life. How at a early age her and her sister Anna‚ lost their mother‚ were sent to their grandparents house in canandaigua‚ New York. They were brought up with simplicity‚ sweetness and Puritan traditions. The diary begins in 1852‚ and is continued
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can say what they are really after; and what they are after‚ in common with all the rest of the struggling world‚ is freedom” (Eastman). The women’s rights movement had many women who fought for women’s rights‚ some of these women included Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and many more. These women worked extremely hard as activist for women’s rights. The fight lasted for many years‚ but they day finally came and women got the right to vote and now they could begin. History
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During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s‚ there were a lot of injustices in the United States. The Progressive Movement‚ which began in the late 1800’s attempted to bring about government reforms and correct injustices in America. One example of the problem in the U.S. was over population of the American cities. More and more people began to move cities from rural areas for jobs. As you can see in Document I‚ the cities were overcrowded and the infrastructure could not hold up with the influx of
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The activist and free thinker Matilda Joslyn Gage is relevant in today’s American culture because of her work in the abolitionist movement which led to the emancipation of slaves; her pioneering work to start the woman’s suffrage movement with Susan B. Anthony that sought equal rights for woman; and her views on religion and how it influenced the women’s suffrage movement. She was exposed as a young child to the abolitionist movement and her childhood home was
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